Detailing my attempt to write 1,000,000 words in 2013 - that's an average of 2,740 a day.

Sunday, 25 August 2013

August 25th – 718,576

Well I managed to convert my heroine to the feisty young
woman I wanted as the lead character by a simple expedient – I’ve changed the
point of view from chapter 5 onward to hers rather than his. Consequently we
can see she’s not a little mouse after all, rather she’s the mouse that roars,
to hark back to a Peter Sellers comedy/farce from many years ago.

I hit 3,274 words before 10 o’clock this morning and if it
hadn’t been for the huge edit looming over my head I could have happily have
written more – I can only think that switching the point of view to her has
given the story idea more vibrancy in my own head and as a result the writing
has gotten easier. Yesterday I took a break from that edit – having managed the
first 86 pages out of the 200 in the previous three days so that is progressing
apace and I'll work on that tomorrow.

On the personal side, the imbalances within my system caused
by the incorrect meds (see earlier posts) seem to be subsiding, certainly the
effects seem less today than on previous days, and I slept better yesterday.
With Marion’s meds improving her pain control as well, things are finally
starting to look up on the health front for both of us.

Now, if only I can regain an appetite, and eat some proper
food… ah well, baby steps and all that…

About Me

Born in 1956 in the East Anglian Fens in England, he moved to Nottingham to study for his business degree. In line with the current myth of the time he met, courted and married a local girl and they have now been married for thirty years. They still live within ten miles of Nottingham and have two adult children and have just become grandparents for the first time! Following a career in software development and IT management, David was forced to give up work in 2005 to look after both his wife and daughter, both of whom were suffering from different life threatening illnesses. To fill the time and take his mind off of the domestic and financial issues, David eventually turned to his love of both photography and writing. Seven Sisters was the first product of the latter and has been followed by a prodigious number of works.